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511.
by bct 19y ago
> Even BitTorrent works over NAT. Eh? Only if the person on the other end can listen.
512.
by bct 19y ago
> Are you implying that it's not? No, it just wasn't clear from your original comment.
513.
by bct 19y ago
Are you implying that the number is very small or very large?
514.
by bct 19y ago
I don't know much about their API so I can't comment on that, but things like this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but... don't make them look like good citizens of the Web.
515.
by bct 19y ago
The Web is the ultimate website. That's what walled gardens forget.
516.
by bct 19y ago
The Semantic Web and tagging, etc. aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if Flickr's machine tags are machine parseable then they're part of the Semantic Web already, particularly with those tasty intersite links between data.
517.
by bct 19y ago
Now bold something inside the link, and put a class attribute on the paragraph.
518.
by bct 19y ago
Data isn't really a good word for it (because obviously a document is a kind of data), but I can't think of a better one.
519.
by bct 19y ago
> Why would the JSON version of that fragment suck pretty hard? ["p", "this is a", ["a", { "text" : "link", "href": "http://example.com" } ], "." ] I don't do much JSON so maybe that can be improved, but I wouldn't imagine by m
520.
by bct 19y ago
Oh, I don't think there's anything wrong with using XML for data - it's just that these "XML sucks" rants always seem to assume that's all it's used for. I know that a JSON version of my XHTML fragment up there would suck pretty hard; would
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by bct 19y ago
If you're just going to shove it straight in the page, then it's part of a document. It's the difference between <p>here is a <a href="http://example.com">link</a>.</p> and <name>bct&#
522.
by bct 19y ago
XML is for documents, s-expressions (or JSON or YAML or ...) is for data.
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Enciphered American Civil War telegram for auction(cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com)
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524.
by bct 19y ago
erm... Rails is a framework, not a language.
525.
by bct 19y ago
PHP isn't going to ruin you, but if you're comfortable with Python then why bother? edit: I should be more clear here. There are lots of good reasons to learn PHP, eg. you want to work on a project or job that uses it. If you want to learn
526.
by bct 19y ago
What language does force you to use the MVC paradigm?
527.
by bct 19y ago
office $$ i $$
528.
by bct 19y ago
People constantly nagging you about supporting walled gardens? Because right now that's the best idea I've got for bringing the wall down :(
529.
by bct 19y ago
Ho-hum, yet another straw-man of the Semantic Web. Misinformation about the Semantic Web seems to propagate faster than understanding these days.
530.
by bct 19y ago
They're not real with the versions of the commands that I have. Also, this is not the kind of "content" that I want to see on this site. I thought we had editors?
531.
by bct 19y ago
Another alternative is a two-axis system. Up-down for agree-disagree, left-right for quality.
532.
by bct 19y ago
So what's the solution? (ah, this article describes Horizons' system: http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/378/378346p1.html )
533.
by bct 19y ago
Better yet, use OpenID and let somebody else worry about passwords. (ok, this isn't an option for everybody yet)
534.
by bct 19y ago
The good ramen. The imported stuff with big thick noodles, recognizable chunks of dehydrated vegetables and the kind of spice that our pathetic Western palates are unused to.
535.
by bct 19y ago
It makes finding packages easier, it makes updating them much easier and it makes removing them reliable. It's not just about space; say somebody finds a security exploit in a widely-used library. How many copies of (eg.) libpng do you ha
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by bct 19y ago
> Gentoo tries to handle this by managing all config files in CVS, so you can diff different versions and merge them. Am I missing something? I wish it did this, but unless something has changed recently it just gives you a tool for mer
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by bct 19y ago
The math material was interesting, it's a pity they thought they had to spice it up with the insanity angle.
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by bct 19y ago
Planet Venus. http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/ (dear pg, please give us some kind of real markup (or at least make it obvious what we can use). thank you, bct.)
539.
by bct 19y ago
Lots of sites make you log in with your email address, is that any different?
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by bct 19y ago
Bad blogger! What have I told you about depending on Javascript for basic functionality?

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